• Warren campaign touts list of supporters - including 'predator' Ed Buck

    From Felcher Adam Schiff@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 3 14:19:22 2021
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    This may not have been the endorsement Elizabeth Warren was
    looking for.

    Ahead of Thursday night’s sixth Democratic presidential debate,
    the Massachusetts senator’s presidential campaign trumpeted a
    list of endorsements from figures associated with President
    Obama’s campaign and administration — including alleged
    “dangerous sexual predator” Ed Buck.

    “I’m grateful to have the support of these Obama campaign alumni
    and my fellow Obama administration alumni,” tweeted Warren on
    Wednesday, linking to a CNN article about more than 200 Obama-
    linked figures signing on to back the Massachusetts senator in
    2020.

    But a closer look at the list reveals an “Edward B. P. Buck” —
    apparently the disgraced Democratic mega-donor charged with
    forcing lethal doses of drugs on multiple lovers at this West
    Hollywood home.

    The first death came in 2017, when Gemmel Moore, a 26-year-old
    homeless male prostitute, suffered a fatal crystal meth overdose
    in Buck’s home.

    Buck at first dodged charges in that death — as he initially did
    in January 2019 when a second man, Timothy Dean, 55, died in the
    home of a meth overdose.

    But when a third man, 37, suffered a non-fatal overdose at the
    home in September, Buck was arrested on charges of battery,
    administering methamphetamine and maintaining a drug house, with
    prosecutors blasting him as a “violent, dangerous sexual
    predator” in court papers.

    Since charged in the deaths of both Moore and Dean, Buck has
    maintained his innocence.

    Warren’s campaign said in a statement that the list was compiled
    by former figures in the Obama camp, and that Buck never should
    have been included because, while he donated to Obama, he was
    neither a staffer nor an alum of the campaign.

    “This was a mistake considering Ed Buck was not staff or an
    alum,” said campaign spokesman Chris Hayden. “This was put
    together via Google Doc by some Obama alums and they caught some
    non-staff that populated the list but obviously they missed one.

    “They are removing it.”

    Warren is one of seven hopefuls for the Democratic presidential
    nominee set to compete Thursday night in the sixth round of nationally-televised debates.

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